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Posted by Wilfried Allico
Wilfried Allico
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Hello. I'm confused at what the class attribute is and its function

Hello. I'm confused at what the class attribute is and its function

Doron Geyer
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Doron Geyer
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Doron Geyer
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Doron Geyer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,897 Points

Hi Wilfried Allico , in simplest terms the class attribute is just a method of grouping things together so that later if you change styling in your CSS you dont need to do it for each and every element that is the same. So for example you could have a vehicle resale website. If you want all the cars that are sold to have a light red background, you would set their class to "sold" and in your style sheet you would just say 

.sold {
    background: red
}

This would set all the cars that are in the "sold" class to a red background. In JavaScript Classes would be a different thing altogether.

1 Answer

Fran ADP
Fran ADP
6,304 Points
Fran ADP
Fran ADP
6,304 Points

The class attribute specifies one or more classnames for an element. The class attribute is mostly used to point to a class in a style sheet. However, it can also be used by a JavaScript to make changes to HTML elements.